Bedrock City: Prime Stone Age real estate for sale Bedrock City: Prime Stone Age real estate for sale Flintstones-inspired town near Grand Canyon is on the market. Post to Facebook Bedrock City: Prime Stone Age real estate for sale Flintstones-inspired town near Grand Canyon is on the market. Check out this story on azcentral.com: CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 3 Register your digital access. Bedrock City: Prime Stone Age real estate for sale Scott Craven , The Republic | azcentral.com Published 12:25 p.m. MT June 5, 2015 | Updated 3:50 p.m. MT June 5, 2015 A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Visit with Fred Flintstone in Bedrock City. Richard Maack Bedrock City was established in 1972. Richard Maack Wilma Flintstone gives visitors a great photo opportunity. Richard Maack A big pair of chompers at the Bedrock City dentist office. Richard Maack In Bedrock City at Fred's Diner Owner Linda Speckels pours some coffee.

Richard Maack Wimla Flinstone yells for Fred. Richard Maack A friendly dinosaur you will run into in Bedrock City. Richard Maack All the comforts you could need while living in the stone age at Bedrock City. Richard Maack A bedroom at Bedrock City. Richard Maack A colorful chimney in Bedrock City. Richard Maack A pterodactyl can be spotted in Bedrock City. Richard Maack Bedrock City offers thirty acres, thirty miles south of the Grand Canyon. Richard Maack Bedrock City has been a family business that has offered over forty years of family fun. Richard Maack Come in an enjoy the living room of one of the houses in Bedrock City. Richard Maack Wilma Flintstone gives visitors a great photo opportunity. Richard Maack Visit with Fred Flintstone in Bedrock City. Richard Maack Francis and Linda Speckels and their five daughters. Courtesy of the Speckels family A metal dinosaur in Bedrock City. Courtesy of the Speckels family A pterodactyl breaks out of its egg in Bedrock City. Courtesy of the Speckels family A volcano at Bedrock City. Courtesy of the Speckels family A Woolly mammoth at Bedrock City.

Courtesy of the Speckels family Like this topic? You may also like these photo galleries: Replay Wilma Flintstone gives visitors a great photo opportunity. (Photo: Richard Maack) If you've ever wanted a piece of the Stone Age, now's your chance. Yabba-dabba-do make an offer for Bedrock City, a theme park and campground south of the Grand Canyon, that comes with a dinosaur and volcano (both dormant). For $2 million, you can own the Flintstones-inspired village that includes water delivered by pipes rather than woolly mammoths, and power that does not rely on prehistoric animals running on treadmills. The property is at the junction of State Route 64 and U.S. 180 in Valle, north of Williams. RELATED: Arizona scenic drive: Flagstaff to Valle Owner Linda Speckels, 73, said she is ready for an extended commercial break. Once Bedrock City is sold, she plans to spend time with family. "It's time to move on and start a new chapter in my life," Speckels said. As owner and unofficial mayor for decades, Speckels said she may move to Flagstaff and spend more time with her daughters and grandchildren.

The 30-acre property includes a diner, convenience store and gift shop, as well as a 3,800-square-foot home. The smaller, stone-age homes within the park are said to belong to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, whom you're more likely to see on YouTube than in Bedrock City. Also within Bedrock City limits are a jail, schoolhouse and the home of a police officer. There's a theater that has played the same clips for years. Those who have no idea of the nature of those clips may have rocks in their head. Only a third of the property has been developed, Speckels said, leaving much room for the buyer's imagination. Bedrock City is a page out of Arizona history. In the early 1970s, contractor Francis Speckels was asked to build a companion park to the successful Bedrock City in Custer, S.D. The plan, said his wife Linda, was to move to Arizona for a year while the park was built along a stretch of a tourist-friendly highway to the Grand Canyon. That was more than 40 years ago.

"The economy wasn't doing well at the time, and the company was having a hard time finding someone to run the park," Linda Speckels said. "My husband stepped up, as he often did." The couple and their five daughters turned it into a family business. Speckels recalled the day she brought home a cash register for her then-12-year-old daughter, showing her how to make change. RELATED: Robin Sewell: Yikes! toy store, Walt Richardson, Bedrock City Family memories have since formed the solid foundation on which Bedrock City was built. Speckels said her greatest joys were meeting travelers from all over the world. Knowing none of them came specifically to see where cartoon Americans still lived in the Stone Age (nearly all were on their way to the Grand Canyon 23 miles to the north), she enjoyed watching children burn off energy during their short break from a long car trip. "Even kids who had no idea who the Flintstones were would rush from here to there, getting a good look at everything." Speckels said.

"We'd even get people who remembered visiting here in their childhood, and they brought their own kids." Holly Hulen, a middle daughter living in Flagstaff and helping her mother with the sale, said her favorite memories revolved around working with sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins. Well, that and the opportunity to see Bedrock after dark, which she often took for, er, granite. "We'd play spooky games of hide and seek," Hulen said. "I'm not sure I realized how special that was." Francis Speckels died more than 20 years ago, and Linda Speckels has been in charge ever since. The decision to sell wasn't always set in stone. The property has been on and off the market over the last 10 years. A handful of rock-solid offers were made, but all crumbled over time. This time, Speckels said, it's different. "I'm motivated to sell," she said. "It's definitely time." (Photo: Richard Maack) Bedrock City may have a rocky road ahead. Speckels noted the sale does not include rights to the Flintstones cartoons, created by the Hanna-Barbera studio.

Speckels said she could assist the new owners in obtaining rights, hoping Bedrock City continues as is. But she knows the new buyer may choose to close the park and turn the plot into something completely different. "I'd love the see the park keep going," Speckels said. "It's a piece of Americana, something you are seeing less and less of nowadays. But I can't tell the buyer what to do." Bedrock City does have cell service, as well as satellite TV — perfect for the modern Stone Age family. Bedrock City The 30-acre theme park with camping and RV spots is on the market for $2 million, for sale by owner. It's at the junction of State Route 674 and U.S. 180 in Valle, 23 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park. 2205 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN 3 COMMENTEMAILMORE Read or Share this story: Fred Flintstone biography | birthday, trivia | Animated Character | Who2 Fred Flintstone Biography Animated Character Fred Flintstone was the prehistoric dad in the animated comedy The Flintstones, a prime-time TV series that aired from 1960-66.

Fred was a blustery, egotistical Stone Age family man who lived in the town of Bedrock and worked in a rock quarry. (The show had many parallels to Jackie Gleason ‘s hit show The Honeymooners.) The show’s running gag was its caricatures of modern conveniences; Fred’s construction crane was actually a long-necked dinosaur, a phonograph needle was actually a bird with a pointed beak, and so forth. Other characters included Fred’s skeptical wife Wilma and daughter Pebbles, the neighbors Barney and Betty Rubble, and their boy Bam Bam.

(In later episodes Fred was sometimes joined by the Great Gazoo, a tiny but powerful green being from outer space.) The Flintstones continued for decades in reruns and spun off several related cartoon series, and Fred’s shout of “Yabba dabba doo!” was TV’s most popular cartoon catch-phrase until Homer Simpson ‘s “D’oh!” Extra credit The Flintstones was created by Hanna-Barbera studios… Alan Reed, who voiced Fred in the original series, played Pancho Villa opposite Marlon Brando in the 1952 film Viva Zapata !… Both Barney Rubble and Fred’s pet dinosaur Dino were voiced by Mel Blanc, who also voiced Bugs Bunny and many other Warner Brothers cartoon characters… Actor John Goodman played Fred in the 1994 live-action film The Flintstones; Mark Addy played Fred in the 2000 sequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. The Flintstone Kids (TV Series 1986–1990) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This!

Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The antics of Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty as children who live in Bedrock. Stars: a list of 55 titles created 13 Mar 2011 a list of 47 titles created 09 Jul 2014 a list of 32 titles created 14 Dec 2015 a list of 69 titles created 30 Dec 2015 a list of 44 titles created 7 months ago Title: The Flintstone Kids (1986–1990) 6.1/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Elroy Jetson invents a time machine that takes his family back to prehistoric times, where they meet the Flintstone family. Directors: Don Lusk, Ray Patterson Stars: George O'Hanlon, Henry Corden, Penny Singleton George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna Stars: George O'Hanlon, Penny Singleton, Mel Blanc The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles. Stars: Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl When an unusually intelligent dinosaur unexpectedly hatches from a fossilized egg in present-day California, a friendly group of human teenagers adopts him and teaches him how to hide from prying eyes and master skateboarding. Stars: James Swodec, Loïc Baugin, Stéphane Bazin "Two Stupid Dogs" follows the lives of two dogs: the overly excited Little Dog (the dachshund) and easy-paced Big Dog (the sheepdog). These crazy canines don't know how to fit in the world,... See full summary » Stars: Brad Garrett, Mark Schiff, Jess Harnell Three chipmunk brothers, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. The trio have been adopted by and are living with Dave (human). Each show finds the boys getting into trouble and new and unusual situations.

Stars: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Frank Welker The Snorks are playful, multicolored underwater creatures that use their built-in snorkels to dart about and make music. Stars: Michael Bell, Nancy Cartwright, Barry Gordon I Yabba-Dabba Do! (TV Movie 1993) Animation | Comedy | Family A grown-up Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm decide to get married. Director: William Hanna The adventures of a superhero caveman and a trio of female amateur detectives. Stars: Mel Blanc, Gary Owens, Laurel Page In this feature-length film based on the "Flintstones" TV show, secret agent Rock Slag is injured during a chase in Bedrock. Slag's chief decides to replace the injured Slag with Fred ... See full summary » Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna Stars: Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl Animated series based on the classic comic strip by Hank Ketcham. America's most well-known little terror, Dennis the Menace, gets into numerous scrapes and adventures with his dog Ruff and...

See full summary » Stars: Brennan Thicke, Jeannie Elias, Marilyn Lightstone Saturday-morning cartoon series whose main characters, the wrinkled Pound Puppies, were inspired by the popular line of stuffed toys. Here, the Pound Puppies lived at the pound, but could ... See full summary » Stars: Adrienne Alexander, Ruth Buzzi, Pat Carroll 6 September 1986 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Frédi és Béni, avagy a kökorszaki buli See more » Company Credits Did You Know? Goofs While the show is called "The Flintstone Kids" there is in fact technically only one Flintstone kid in the series' main cast- that being Fred Flintstone himself. See more » Connections Do I remember this or what! 5 June 2002 | by wishkah7 (Brooklyn, NY. (Where I'm from originally.)) – See all my reviews This was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid. I used to watch this religiously. Basically, it was a spin-off of the more superior Flintstones cartoon. In it had Fred, Barney, Wilma, Betty, friends and enemies alike as kids.

Unlike the original Flintstones, this wasn't very funny. It was more a cartoon about childhood issues and growing up than it was for laughs. It also had two segments following called, "Dino's Dilemmas" and "Captain Caveman and Son." I guess this cartoon was made to get a new generation into The Flintstones, also a lot of other kids I went to school with watched this, too. Every time a spin-off cartoon comes out about the auxillary characters as kids, it always has to take place in modern day era. (i.e. Muppet Babies, Flintstone Kids, Tiny Toons Adventures, and of course the horrid Sabrina: The Animated Series.) And to me, that makes no sense at all. Watch the original Flintstones cartoon, and skip this one. Even though it was a spin off, it had no references to the original cartoon at all. I don't recall 'Rocky Ratrock' being mentioned in the Flintstones, and where was 'Joe Rockhead' in The Flintstone Kids? See what I mean? If you want to introduce your kids to the Flintstones, watch the classic cartoon, not this pointless trash.

I used to love this show as a kid, but now that I'm an adult, I realize that this was just a ploy to get kids into classic shows. And of course they will probably prefer something like this to the original. Sad, isn't it? After this show was over, I began to watch the "Dennis the Menece" cartoon show. 7 of 12 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes The Flintstones - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com EDIT The Flintstones was a parody on modern suburban life, set in the Stone Age. The characters in the cartoon series all behaved and spoke in a contemporary manner, though they lived in the prehistoric city of Bedrock. Fred worked as operator of a dinosaur-powered crane at Rock Hard & Quarry Cave Construction Co. (slogan: "Own Your Own Cave and Be Secure").

Around their split-level cave the Flintstones enjoyed such conveniences as Wilma's Stoneway piano, a hi-fi on which Fred could play his "rock" music (it consisted of a turntable and a bird with a long beak to serve as a needle), a vacuum cleaner (a baby elephant with a long trunk), and an automatic garbage disposal unit (a famished buzzard stashed under the sink). Their car, which sported tail fins, also came equipped with steamroller wheels--to smooth out the rocky road. Then one day in 1963 they were blessed with a baby daughter, whom they named Pebbles. Not to be outdone, their neighbors the Rubbles adopted an orphan boy named Bamm Bamm. (The two kids later had a Saturday morning cartoon series of their own, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm.) The Flintstones was always as much adult satire as children's fun. In many respects it resembled Jackie Gleason's popular Honeymooners, especially in the relationships of the principals.

A wide range of caricatures passed through the stories: Lollobrickida, a pretty cook; Ann-Margrock, whose voice was supplied by Ann-Margret; attorney Perry Masonry (he never lost a case); Ed Sullystone, a TV host; Eppy Brianstone, a teenage impresario; and Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome, the strange couple who with their son Goblin moved into a cave nearby (this was a parody on The Addams Family and The Munsters, then popular). The Gruesomes thought that they were normal, and everyone else in Bedrock was odd. The Flintstones and its spin-offs had a highly successful run on Saturday mornings--on NBC from January 1967-September 1970, on CBS from September 1972-January 1974, back on NBC from February 1979-September 1984, and on ABC with The Flintstone Kids from September 1986-September 1989. This series has also many movies and specials (about 10 specials).

Some of them are:"A Flintstones Christmas Carol", a flintstones version of the famous Charles Dickens book, "A Flintstones Christmas" where Fred replaces Santa Claus (Pebbles and Bamm Bamm are speaking now), "I Yabba Dabba Do" where Pebbles and Bamm Bamm are grown up and get married, and "Holly-Rock-a-bye Baby" where Pebbles gives birth.moreless The Flintstones TV Show: News, Videos, Full Episodes and More | TVGuide.com Rock-solid animated sitcom about a Stone Age family in the prehistoric town of Bedrock that played out like a cartoon version of `The Honeymooners.' The series, originally titled `The Flagstones,' was TV's first prime-time cartoon. It later thrived in synd (more…) Rock-solid animated sitcom about a Stone Age family in the prehistoric town of Bedrock that played out like a cartoon version of `The Honeymooners.' The series, originally titled `The Flagstones,' was TV's first prime-time cartoon.

It later thrived in syndication and spawned many incarnations, including `The Flintstone Kids' (which cast Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty as 10-year-olds), specials (such as a 1993 one in which Pebbles married Bamm Bamm) and theatrical films (in 1994 and 2000). Rating: TV-Y The Flintstones - YouTube The Flintstones Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Nov 19, 2013 Make way for the modern Stone Age family as they make the jump from animated favorites to live-action heroes! There's trouble brewing in Bedrock: a test mix-up has made Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) a vice president at Slate & Company, and now an evil executive (Kyle MacLachlan) and his sinister secretary (Halle Berry) are plotting to use Fred as the fall guy in an embezzlement scheme.

Luckily for Fred, his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis), wife Wilma (Elizabeth Perkins) and her best friend Betty (Rosie O'Donnell) always have the big guy's back in this yabba-dabba-doo of an adventure! Elizabeth Taylor co-stars in the "Steven Spielrock" production filled with dino-sized special effects and classic Flintstones humor. (Original Title - The Flintstones) Partner rating 15 Solid Facts About ‘The Flintstones’ | Mental Floss 15 Solid Facts About ‘The Flintstones’ The Flintstones/Facebook Like us on Facebook Pre-dating The Simpsons by almost 30 years, The Flintstones was the first primetime animated show on TV and, until 1997 when The Simpsons stole the crown, The Flintstones aired the most episodes of any animated show in primetime, with 166 episodes between 1990 and 1966. The show was so successful, it established Hanna-Barbera as the largest producer of animated films. Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their neighbors, Barney and Betty Rubble, live in Bedrock during 10,000 B.C.

Fred and Barney work at a quarry, and Betty and Wilma are homemakers who are constantly at odds with their husbands. In the third and fourth seasons, respectively, kids Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm joined the cast. Akin to other Hanna-Barbera-produced shows like Scooby-Doo , The Flintstones reappeared in many other series and specials throughout the decades, including two live-action theatrical movies and several spin-off series, including 20 episodes of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, featuring the kids as teenagers. Nearly a dozen TV specials aired, including The Flintstone Kids’ “Just Say No” Special, a couple of Flintstones holiday specials, and a made-for-TV Jetsons /Flintstones mash-up. Along with all of the shows, The Flintstones launched multi-million dollar merchandising with Fruity Pebbles cereal and Flintstones vitamins. Since 2001, though, The Flintstones have mostly remained dormant on TV and in the movies, but they’ll soon appear in comic books and more films. Here are 15 brontosaurus-sized facts about one of the greatest animated families of all time. 1.

ORIGINALLY, THE FLINTSTONES WERE THE FLAGSTONES. Joe Barbera thought about calling the show The Gladstones, then decided on The Flagstones until he realized there was a comic strip with the same name. In 1959, they filmed a 90-second pilot . Daws Butler provided Fred’s gruff voice and June Foray played Betty. Unfortunately for her, the part eventually went to Bea Benaderet. “I was terribly disappointed, and when my agent talked to Joe Barbera, he said they wouldn’t even let me come in and retest for the part or any of the others,” Foray told Hogan’s Alley . The pilot didn’t air, and the name got changed to The Flintstones. But in 1993, Cartoon Network unearthed the pilot, found in a New York storage warehouse. “It was this mythological sort of thing animators had heard of it, but nobody had actually seen it,” Mike Lazzo, the Cartoon Network’s head of programming, told Entertainment Weekly . “So we sent out teams of researchers to look for it all over. It was like the search for the Holy Grail.” The pilot finally aired on TV in May of 1994. 2.

BARNEY AND FRED WERE DRAWN TO RESEMBLE CAVE PEOPLE. Ed Benedict was one of The Flintstones’s designers. He told Hogan’s Alley that he sketched the characters to look like “cave people wearing long beards, with scraggly, unkempt hair and in slightly distorted, hunched-over shapes.” Barbera didn’t like the designs, so Benedict “straightened them up” and made them more “clean-cut.” “Barney, as originally designed, had a strap over one shoulder, and when he turned he had a bare shoulder,” Benedict said. “It just didn’t look right, so we had to correct that. I was told they had a pet, so a dinosaur seemed appropriate, and that’s all Dino is: a small dinosaur. I had six spots on Fred’s loincloth and remember exactly that it was reduced to four. I continued to add little things, like the necktie on Fred and the stone necklace that Wilma wears. Joe just continued making very small changes, bit by bit. Joe was going more for a neat, cute look, but not cute for its own sake.” 3.

ALAN REED INVENTED “YABBA DABBA DOO.” Flintstones source WebRockOnline says the origin of Fred’s iconic “Yabba dabba doo” catchphrase came from Alan Reed, who voiced Fred, and reportedly used the line during a recording session. Reed’s mother apparently used to say, “A little dab’ll do ya,” which inspired Reed. “Alan said, ‘Hey, Joe, where it says yahoo, can I say yabba-dabba-doo?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ God knows where he got it, but it was one of those terrific phrases,” Barbera said. 4. THE FLINTSTONES DIDN’T COPY THE HONEYMOONERS. It’s true that Fred was based on Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners character Ralph Kramden, but Joe Barbera made him different.

“So many people say, ‘Did you copy The Honeymooners?’ I said, ‘Well, if you compare The Flintstones to The Honeymooners, that’s the biggest compliment you can give me,” Barbera told Emmy TV Legends , “but The Honeymooners don’t have all the gags that we had in there,” including a Stoneway Piano and the Polarrock Camera. 5. HANNA-BARBERA DID HIRE A FORMER HONEYMOONERS WRITER FOR THE FLINTSTONES. As Barbera relayed to Emmy TV Legends , he hired a guy who had written for The Honeymooners. “We paid him $3000 and he was terrible,” Barbera recalled. “And the reason being is, he just wrote words. It was all dialogue. He had no visual gags, no nothing. Yak, yak, yak, yak. The Honeymooners had a lot of dialogue, but it was their expressions and [Art] Carney’s attitude that made it work. When you’re doing an animation, you better go beyond that. You can’t just have people making faces at each other. You have to move them.” 6.

THE FLINTSTONES HELPED SELL CIGARETTES. In the 1960s, Winston cigarettes sponsored The Flintstones. At the end of the show, Fred and Barney would be animated to smoke the cigarettes. In one black-and-white spot, Barney and Fred avoid yard work. “Let’s take a Winston break,” Barney says, as he and Fred light up. Wilma and Betty catch them in the act and throw yard equipment at them, and Fred says the tagline, “Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should.” The smoking was short-lived: Enacted in 1970, the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act required stricter health warnings on cigarette packs, and it also banned cigarette ads on TV and radio. Later on, The Flintstones started shilling the healthier Welch’s grape juice. 7. PEBBLES WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BABY BOY. In 1962, during the show’s third season, the producers decided Fred and Wilma should have a child.

Barbera told Emmy TV Legends the plan was for their child to be a boy, until Ideal Toy Company (the company that created the Rubik’s Cube and Betsy Wetsy) changed his mind. One day, Barbera received a call from the guy in charge of Flintstones merchandising. “He said, ‘Hey, I hear you’re having a baby on the show.’ I said, ‘Yeah,’” Barbera said. “He said, ‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ ‘What else, a boy. A chip off the old rock.’ He says, ‘That’s too bad. I have the ideal toy. If it was a girl, we could’ve made a hell of a deal.’ I said, ‘It’s is a girl.’” They sold three million dolls within the first couple of months. 8. MEL BLANC KEPT VOICING BARNEY DESPITE A HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT. The Man of a Thousand Voices portrayed Barney Rubble, even following a devastating head-on car collision in 1961.

Blanc didn’t let a 70-day hospital day deter him too much, and when he got out of the hospital, the cast and crew came to his home to record episodes. Blanc recounted the experience in his book , That’s Not All Folks, writing: “Tangles of wires were scattered all over the floor, and chairs and microphones were arranged around my hospital bed.” The cast gathered around Blanc, and the producers talked to him through a built-in speaker. “Every couple of hours Joe would ask if I was too tired to carry on, but I insisted on completing the show,” Blanc wrote, saying that they recorded about 40 episodes in that manner. “Thankfully, by September, my doctors allowed me to sit up a bit, elevated by way of a pulley-cable system, to a semi-sitting position. It was no more than a few inches difference, but as I laughingly told my colleagues, ‘How nice is it to be able to look at your faces instead of at the damned ceiling.’” 9.

THE VOICE OF WILMA THINKS SHE AND FRED “REALLY LOVED EACH OTHER.” Jean Vander Pyl supplied the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the show’s beginning to the day she died, in 1999. Though Wilma and Fred argued a lot, they did have a rock-solid relationship. “I loved the bum,” Pyl told the Los Angeles Times in 1989. “Sure, Fred was a yahoo and I got mad at him all the time. But we really loved each other. Our romance was one of the things that made us so popular. We were real.” Pyl also voiced Rosie the Robot and Mrs. Spacely on The Jetsons, but it’s Wilma who made her famous. “I know I’m going to get killed for saying this, but Wilma had a great ‘housewife whine’ to her voice,” Pyl said. “She commanded enough authority to run the house but kept an equal amount of warmth. Wilma is a communicator and a lot of women relate to that, at least I know I do.

I think there’s a lot of me in Wilma, and even though she’s just a cartoon, I think my voice is one of the things that made her so human.” 10. ACCORDING TO HARVEY KORMAN, THE GREAT GAZOO IS WORTH MONEY. The actor provided the voice of the “superior and arrogant and elite” Great Gazoo, a green alien, for 13 episodes, from 1964 to 1966. Korman told Emmy TV Legends that he didn’t realize how popular—and lucrative—the character was until he attended conventions. “Some years back, I traveled for Hanna-Barbera,” Korman said . “They had these huge conventions and seminars where collectors collect cels, and the cels with The Great Gazoo on it are worth lots of money. Collectors on eBay and stuff want my autograph.” 11. IT TOOK NINE YEARS (AND 32 WRITERS) TO BRING THE LIVE-ACTION FLINTSTONES MOVIE TO THE BIG SCREEN.

Even though the 1994 film grossed $341,631,208 at the worldwide box office, the film was in development hell for years. According to an article in Entertainment Weekly , producers Keith Barish and Joel Silver commissioned Steven E. de Souza to write a script for a Flintstones movie in 1985. Steven Spielberg, who had directed John Goodman in Always, recommended Goodman for the role of Fred. In 1993, eight writers wrote a new draft of the script, but only three writers were credited. Richard Donner was once attached to direct but Brian Levant took over (he also directed the sequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas). The plot of the final film centers around a work scheme and kidnapping, but an earlier version had a Grapes of Wrath-like plot. “I don’t even remember it that well, but Fred and Barney leave their town during a terrible depression and go across the country, or whatever that damn prehistoric thing is, looking for jobs,” Mitch Markowitz, one of the earlier writers, said. “They wind up in trailer parks trying to keep their families together. They exhibit moments of heroism and poignancy.” 12.

YOU CAN VISIT—OR PURCHASE—A REAL-LIFE BEDROCK IN ARIZONA. Located a half-hour from the Grand Canyon, Bedrock City recreates The Flintstones’s Bedrock in a diner serving Bronto Burgers and Gravelberry pie, a train ride through a volcano named Mount St. Wilma, and a brontosaurus slide. The site was established in 1972 as a RV camping site, and now it’s for sale for $2 million. 13. THE FLINTSTONES WILL STAR IN A COMIC BOOK. DC Comics On July 6, DC Comics will release America’s favorite modern Stone Age family in comic book form with The Flintstones #1 . The summary reads, “Welcome to Bedrock, where Paleolithic humans head to dinner for a taste of artisanal mammoth after shopping at Neandertall & Big Men’s Clothing … Join Fred and Barney as Mister Slate sends them on a mission to show some Neanderthals a night on the town in hopes of luring them into this new system called ‘working for a living’—in Slate’s Quarry, of course.” 14.

A NEW FLINTSTONES PROJECT HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR A FEW YEARS. The Flintstones last appeared on TV in 2001’s The Flintstones: On the Rocks. But in 2011, it was reported that Seth MacFarlane wrote an animated Flintstones TV pilot for Fox, which they rejected. Gilmore Girls’ Dan Palladino and Family Guy’s Kara Vallow were supposed to produce the show. Three years later, in 2014, Warner Bros. revived the idea of a theatrical animated Flintstones movie , the first since the box office failure of 2000’s The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Chris Henchy was scheduled to write the script, with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay executive producing. Since then, the project has been quiet. 15. THE FLINTSTONES AND WRESTLING CAME TOGETHER LAST YEAR. In 2015, The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age SmackDown was released direct-to-DVD. It features Fred and Barney hanging around with animated versions of wrestling stars like John Cena (John Cenastone), Rey Mysterio Jr.

(Rey Mysteriopal), and Daniel Bryan (Daniel Byrock). “We recorded it at SummerSlam 2013,” Bryan told IGN . “The weird thing that happens when you go from kind of being a nobody to being in a new type of position is that all these crazy things happen to you. Like, ‘Wow, I’m a toy.’ And now ‘Wow, I’m a Flintstone.’ It’s really strange to see yourself animated like that, with the little caveman outfit and those feet. It’s borderline surreal.” More from mental_floss... Fred Flintstone Biography (Animated Character) Birthplace: Best known as: Star of TV's The Flintstones Fred Flintstone was the prehistoric dad in the animated comedy The Flintstones, a prime-time TV series that aired from 1960-66. Fred was a blustery, egotistical Stone Age family man who lived in the town of Bedrock and worked in a rock quarry.

(The show had many parallels to Jackie Gleason 's hit show The Honeymooners.) The show's running gag was its caricatures of modern conveniences; Fred's construction crane was actually a long-necked dinosaur, a phonograph needle was actually a bird with a pointed beak, and so forth. Other characters included Fred's skeptical wife Wilma and daughter Pebbles, the neighbors Barney and Betty Rubble, and their boy Bam Bam.

(In later episodes Fred was sometimes joined by the Great Gazoo, a tiny but powerful green being from outer space.) The Flintstones continued for decades in reruns and spun off several related cartoon series, and Fred's shout of "Yabba dabba doo!" was TV's most popular cartoon catch-phrase until Homer Simpson 's "D'oh!" Extra credit: The Flintstones was created by Hanna-Barbera studios… Alan Reed, who voiced Fred in the original series, played Pancho Villa opposite Marlon Brando in the 1952 film Viva Zapata !… Both Barney Rubble and Fred’s pet dinosaur Dino were voiced by Mel Blanc, who also voiced Bugs Bunny and many other Warner Brothers cartoon characters… Actor John Goodman played Fred in the 1994 live-action film The Flintstones; Mark Addy played Fred in the 2000 sequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Copyright © 1998-2017 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved.

VUDU - The Flintstones The Flintstones More Info The Flintstones 1994's The Flintstones brought the modern Stone Age family - immortalized in the longest-running animated series in prime-time history - to the live-action big screen. After an aptitude test mix-up, Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) trades his job as Slate & Company Bronto-crane operator for a vice presidency. But there's trouble brewing in Bedrock: An evil executive (Kyle MacLachlan) and his sinister secretary (Halle Berry) are now plotting to use Fred as the fall guy in an embezzlement scheme! Comedy / Family / Adventure

Question: Which TV stone-age family lived in Bedrock?
Answer: The Flintstones